POLI 347 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2: Muhammad, Palestine Liberation Organization, Antisemitism

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 347
• Professor: Daniel Douek

Document Summary

Wide variety of ways of understanding and representing the israeli-arab or. Useful to acknowledge and discuss the parties" competing narratives" of the conflict - rather than assuming one side is true and the other lies. Caplan"s intentions: explore this conflict with all its paradoxes and complexities, if possible to demystify some of its features, and to offer some understanding about why the narratives held dear by palestinians and israelis - are so contested. In naming the conflict and defining what it is about, one is immediately taking a position that will surely be disputed by someone who holds a different view. Arab-israeli conflict - apt name for the territorial and political dispute since 1948 between the state of israel, on the one hand, and the 20 or so states that consider themselves to be arab, on the other. Still misleading - may lead to notion that conflict began in 1948 with creation of.